Details: This poster is of Midsummer Eve, by Edward Robert Hughes. It shows a woman standing in a clearing, wearing a wreath of flowers in her hair. Surrounding her in a circle at her feet are tiny fairies, many of whom have lights. They are in celebration as she gazes down at them.

Edward Robert Hughes (1851 - 1914) is a well known English painter who worked in a style influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism. Some of his best known works are Midsummer Eve and Night With Her Train of Stars. Hughes was the nephew of Arthur Hughes. He often used watercolour/gouache. He was elected ARWS in 1891 and chose as his diploma work for election to full membership a mystical piece inspired by a verse by Christina Rossetti's Amor Mundi . Technically Hughes experimented with ambitious techniques. He was a perfectionist who did numerous studies which in their own right turned out to be good enough for exhibition. He was also an assistant to the elderly William Holman Hunt.